1922] General Monthly Meeting 577 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, May 8, 1922. 



Sir James Reid, G.C.V.O. K.C.B. M.D. LL.D., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



John Philip Blessig, 



William Dobinson Halliburton, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. 



E. H. Hankin, M.A. Sc.D. 



Mrs. Percy McQuoid, 



Samuel Thomas Nunn, 



Mrs. Theodore Stephenson, 



were elected Members. 



The Chairman announced that His Grace the President had 

 nominated the following gentlemen as Vice-Presidents for the 

 ensuing year : — 



John Mitchell Bruce, C.V.O. M.D. LL.D. 



Sir Ernest Moon, K.C.B. K.C. LL.B. 



The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B. J.P. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Sir James Reid, Bart., G.C.V.O. K.C.B. M.D. LL.D. 



Sir David Salomons, Bart., D.L. J.P. 



Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. 



The Right Hon. Lord Justice Younger, P.C. G.B.E. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, J.P. M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. (Treasurer) 



Colonel E. H. Grove-Hills, C.M.G. D.Sc. F.R.S. (Secretary) 



Sir Joseph John Thomson, O.M. LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S., was 

 re-elected Honorary Professor of Natural Philosophy. 



Sir Ernest Rutherford, D.Sc. LL.D. F.R.S., was re-elected 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy. 



The Chairman announced the decease of Sir William Phipson 

 Beale, Bart., on April 13, and of Sir Alfred Bray Kempe on April 21, 

 and the following Resolutions, passed by the Managers at their 

 Meeting held this day, were read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 desire to place on record their sense of the great loss the Institution has 

 sustained by the death of Sir William Phipson Beale, Barb., K.C. F.C.S. F.G.S., 

 President of the Mineralogical Society, late Manager and Vice- [resident. 



Sir William Phipson Beale studied Chemistry under Bunsen at Heidel- 

 berg, where he worked alongside of Roscoe, Mond and Messel, who became 



